By VINCENT KIERNAN The future of the US space station is still hanging in the balance, despite last month’s announcement that the Clinton administration is backing a scaled-down version of the Freedom space project. Politically, it is a hard project to kill so President Bill Clinton and his advisers are using science to justify their […]

By MIKE GAINES (see Graphic) (see Graphic) Europe’s new fighter aircraft will be a supreme warplane with great power and agility in the air. But while huge sums of money are being spent developing the technology for the Eurofighter 2000 (formerly the European Fighter Aircraft), little cash has been set aside to investigate the effects […]

By JULIAN COLEMAN In the summer of 1990, Ranulph Fiennes and Michael Stroud set out on their fourth attempt to be the first to walk to the North Pole unsupported. After walking 500 miles they were beaten by stretches of open water only 90 miles from the pole – but they did achieve a world […]